FW: [voting] OASIS Call For Vote: AVDL

["Kevin Heineman" <kheineman@spidynamics.com>]

All,

Voting is now open to approve our Committee Draft as an OASIS standard.  The
ballot will remain open until 11:45 PM EST on May 31st.  The ballot requires
15% approval of the voting members to pass.  Since we are a small committee,
it is imperative that we get the word out to friends and colleagues who are
members of OASIS asking them to support this standard.  

The most beneficial thing you can as committee members is to lobby your
company's voting representative and ask them to vote in favor of the ballot.
If you do not know who your company's representative is, please bounce back
to this email.  I should be able to provide you with that information.

I want to thank everyone for your involvement and commitment over the past
year and hope that with a little extra effort, we will be able to create a
standard for our industry that will benefit all of us.  Thanks for the help.

Regards,

Kevin Heineman
Vice President of Professional Services and Engineering
S.P.I. Dynamics, Inc.
Direct: 678.781.4830
Fax: 678.781.4850
kheineman@spidynamics.com
www.spidynamics.com
Secure. Protect. Inspect.

"Gartner estimates that if 50 percent of software vulnerabilities were
removed prior to production use for purchased and internally developed
software, enterprise configuration management costs and incident response
costs would be reduced by 75 percent each."

			Gartner, Inc. Research Note
			"Require Vulnerability Testing During Software
Development"
			September 10, 2003 


-----Original Message-----
From: Karl F. Best [mailto:karl.best@oasis-open.org] 
Sent: Friday, May 14, 2004 8:56 AM
To: voting@lists.oasis-open.org; tc-announce@lists.oasis-open.org
Subject: [voting] OASIS Call For Vote: AVDL

OASIS voting representatives:

This is a Call For Vote to approve the following Committee Draft as an OASIS
Standard:

* The Application Vulnerability Description Language (AVDL) v1.0
specification from the OASIS Application Vulnerability Description Language
(AVDL) TC (see the review materials at
http://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/tc-announce/200404/msg00007.html)

The Committee Draft has had its required 30 day public review, and the
review materials were sent out to the membership of OASIS for the required
15-day familiarization period. As the required review and familiarization
periods have now been completed it is time to vote. (The applicable section
of the TC Process is at
http://www.oasis-open.org/committees/process.php#standard)

As each OASIS member organization has only one vote, employees of your
organization should have sent their input to you, their voting
representative, so that you can decide how to vote on behalf of your
organization.

The voting representative from each OASIS member organization should submit
the organization's vote by 11:45 p.m. ET 31 May 2004.

Voting will be conducted using the OASIS collaborative tools. To cast your
ballots, go to the voting group page at
http://www.oasis-open.org/apps/org/workgroup/voting/ and select the link for
Open Ballots.

You may change your ballot until the time that balloting closes. Ballots
will be publicly archived. Comments are not solicited as the specifications
have already had a public review period.

You will need to login to the collaborative tools in order to cast your
ballots; if you have not yet obtained your username and password please
contact Scott McGrath (scott.mcgrath@oasis-open.org) for help.


-Karl

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Karl F. Best
Vice President, OASIS
office  +1 978.667.5115 x206     mobile +1 978.761.1648
karl.best@oasis-open.org      http://www.oasis-open.org


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